Galerie Marguo is thrilled to present Notes From The Laughing Barrel, a suite of new works by the American artist A’Driane Nieves. On view from 20 January to 18 February 2023, this exhibition marks the artist’s first exhibition in Europe.
A'Driane Nieves explains her work and her approach in these terms, 'While the existence of laughing barrels and their use is stored somewhere between historical fact and Southern mythology, the imagery of an enslaved African or free Black person during the Reconstruction and Jim Crow eras having to use a barrel to hide their emotions from whites is a striking one to me. It has been burned into my mind’s eye for years; the barrel as a means of survival and protection from white fragility resonates with much of my own experience with emotional suppression as a young child due to abuse.'
